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Mosasaurus gaudryi
Taxonomy
Mosasaurus gaudryi was named by Thevenin (1896). Its type specimen is MNHN 1896-15, a partial skull (Large anterior portion of a cranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vaux-Eclusier, which is in a Santonian carbonate chalk in France.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hainosaurus bernardi by Bardet (1990); it was recombined as Hainosaurus gaudryi by Lingham-Soliar (1992); it was considered a nomen dubium by Bullard and Caldwell (2010); it was recombined as Tylosaurus gaudryi by Lindgren (2005) and Driscoll et al. (2019).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hainosaurus bernardi by Bardet (1990); it was recombined as Hainosaurus gaudryi by Lingham-Soliar (1992); it was considered a nomen dubium by Bullard and Caldwell (2010); it was recombined as Tylosaurus gaudryi by Lindgren (2005) and Driscoll et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1896 | Mosasaurus gaudryi Thevenin |
| 1967 | Mosasaurus gaudryi Russell p. 122 |
| 1992 | Hainosaurus gaudryi Lingham-Soliar |
| 2005 | Tylosaurus gaudryi Lindgren p. 1163 |
| 2019 | Tylosaurus gaudryi Driscoll et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Mosasaurus gaudryi Thevenin 1896
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Gervais 1852, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.80000 to 83.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian | France (Somme) | Mosasaurus gaudryi (type locality: 141941) |